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Tables of Contents for A Guide to Rational Living
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
iv
Foreword
vii
Melvin Powers
Introduction to the Third Edition, Revised and Updated
xi
How Far Can You Go With Self-therapy?
1
8
You Largely Feel the Way You Think
9
8
Feeling Well by Thinking Straight
17
6
How You Create Your Feelings
23
12
Thinking Yourself Out of Emotional Disturbances
35
10
Recognizing and Reducing Neurotic Behavior
45
14
Overcoming the Influences of the Past
59
12
Is Reason Always Reasonable?
71
16
Refusing to Feel Desperately Unhappy
87
14
Tackling Your Dire Need for Approval
101
14
Reducing Your Dire Fears of Failure
115
12
How to Stop Blaming and Start Living
127
12
How to Feel Frustrated but not Depressed or Enraged
139
16
Controlling Your Own Emotional Destiny
155
8
Conquering Anxiety and Panic
163
14
Acquiring Self-discipline
177
10
Rewriting Your Personal History
187
10
Accepting and Coping With the Grim Facts of Life
197
10
Overcoming Inertia and Getting Creatively Absorbed
207
6
Additional Rational Approaches to a Good Life
213
14
Additional Emotive and Behavioral Approaches to A Good Life
227
14
Research Evidence Supporting the Principles and Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
241
4
Acquiring Profound Rational Philosophies to Make Yourself Remarkably Less Disturbed and Less Disturbable
245
10
Selected References
255
20
Index
275